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Show less help. New fertilizers increase production per acre. So farm surpluses sur-pluses are possible when the war emergency ends, regardless of shortages now. Solution Seen . . . Wartime developments point to at least a partial solution. One company now has capacity for using us-ing 11,000,000 bushels of corn per year for industrial purposes. Corn produces plastics as well as wood and grain alcohols. Potatoes yield starch. Soy beans furnish plastics, paints, insecticides. "These are only a few of the new uses for farm products made possible by research and invention" inven-tion" says R. J. Dearborn, noted patent authority. "Frther deevlop-ments deevlop-ments along these" lines will do much to solve our farm problems." (Phi&liuiqicfii 7 SamzZ Prtow Foresighted spokesmen for farm groups look to wartime patents on new plastics, bulding materials, synthetic textiles, ets., to use up a lot of surplus farm products when Europe and Asia go back to raising their own food. Right now, when Americans are short of meat, sugar, and other favorite foods and wholesale starvation star-vation threatens Europe, there is no public interest in ways to dispose dis-pose "of excess farm products. Too many people want a chance to consume a few excess beefsteaks. However, farm spoksmen cite a statement by Arthur C. Bunce, Federal Reserve System, to the effect that farm production has increasd by on-t h i r d during World War n, compared with 10 per cent in World War I. Tractors, Trac-tors, planters and harvesters make it possible to raise more food with |